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Jane Austen Quotes about Literature

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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Love, Literature, Might

Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.262, Wild Jot Press

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Inspiring, People, Literature

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.945, Ageless Reads

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Literature, Next, Months

Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.275

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Literature, Opinion, Mansfield Park

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.543, Wordsworth Editions

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Men, Literature, May

Persuasion ch. 13 (1818)

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

Literature, Suspects

Jane Austen (2013). “Emma (the Very Illustrated Edition)”, p.430, eBookIt.com

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

Laughing, Prejudice, Literature

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.75

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Love, Men, Literature

Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Inspiring, Literature, Speak

Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.41, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Half, Literature, States

Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.438

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Dresses, Literature, Solicitude

Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.1560, Wildside Press LLC

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Time, Watches, Literature

Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.301, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Power, Done, Literature

Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Self, Wild Imagination, Literature

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1554, Ageless Reads

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Husband, Wife, Literature

Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.187, BookCaps Study Guides

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Inspiring, Girl, Literature

Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.29, Wild Jot Press

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Literature, Sore Throat, Throat

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